Re: [w3c/charter-html] Charter must state a reason when duplicating work done elsewhere (#139)

> So that gets back to my original question to you: "how high level an explanation do you want?". I provided an explanation in my first response which pretty much explains why we work on our specs.

Phrasing aside (as we can always tweak that), what @michaelchampion or what @stevefaulkner said are the level I would expect. Yours seem to generic: it says why in general it is good to standardize things and to do so in a standards body like ours, and how we liaise with other standard bodies, but it does not explain away this particular document or sets of document needs to be edited here despite the redundancy.

> What would you say about work recently started in W3C and forked to the WHATWG? Your formula seems to be a formula to ultimately stop everything in W3C.

I do not think we should systematically stop working on documents that are handled both at the W3C and at WHATWG. Only about doing so **when there is no sufficient reason** to continue, and  “we are a standards body with a good process” is not on its own a sufficient reason. When there are good specific reasons, they should be stated explicitly, weighted against the cost of maintaining the document, and if benefits exceed the costs, used to evaluate whether the general approach and individual actions serve that goal.

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